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the only thing reddit gold members get are access to /r/lounge (which is just a giant reddit gold circlejerk), the ability to show all comments on a page, and comment highlighting from the last time you read the comments.

It's not necessarily because he's black, though some may think so. The humor lays in the contrasts of the subject and his apparel and the absurd relationship between these two.

Here we have a large, corpulent man with an imposing build; his pose and facial expression denotes his physical strength, male fortitude and alpha status; note the baring of the teeth, lips curled in pantomime fierceness, the furled brow: all demonstrative of his desire to express his intimidating masculine prowess.

This is contrasted with a baby blue t-shirt decorated with a collage of various cute kittens. This is not the usual apparel of one who attempting to express alpha male traits.

Thus it is this juxtaposition of extreme differences that makes this subject and his shirt humorous.

Within this context his race is largely irrelevant.

Some might argue that the humor of this juxtaposition is derived entirely because the subject is black, since African American youth has been largely influenced by hip-hop culture - a culture that emphasizes and celebrates male strength, dominance and machismo - and it is this we're laughing at.

It may very well be through this prism that some see the humor but I contend that this is a veneer that enhances the joke but the joke itself is not dependent on the stereotype and would work with another non-African American subject so long as they exhibited the same alpha male posturing contrasted with something equally and diametrically cute and adorable.

i get it the stupid tough guy face and the "irony" of the shirt to go with the face, white kids do this shit every day and post it to facebook and it doesn't make it to the front page of reddit. it's because its a black dude and theyre usually thought of different than the guy in this picture looks. sorry for not being as professional and taking time to reply as in depth as you did.

Without getting into the technical merits of your argument's logic (which appears to run into "denying the antecedent" formal fallacy territory), the basis of successful joke images is a matter of degrees.

The link I provided shows a white girl doing something funny; no one questions whether that hit the front page solely because she's white so it stands to reason that this image's sole appeal isn't based on race either.

Reddit is a fickle place and sometimes genuinely funny images never make it to the front page, and other less deserving images make it multiple times as reposts.

Are there racists on reddit who love racial stereotypes? Absolutely. The whole "Asian Dad" or "Challenge Level: Asian" meme is pretty stupid if you ask me, but popular. But that doesn't mean every time a funny picture of a racial minority ends up on the front page its success is directly related to their race.

So unless you can make a much more concrete argument logically connecting how race plays into this image's popularity, I submit that it may be your perceptions on this touchy subject coloring your outlook. Which is okay I guess, as long as you recognize its a personal bias and not an objective observation.